The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-05-05

Rev. A. NJ. Morrison stole horse and
buggy in Baltimore on the 5th inst. and
a lew days ago was arrested at Brockton.
Mass. He returned to Baltimore
in charge Of detective and was
was sentenced to seven years in tho penl'
tentiary with hard labor.
r. G. Dun & Co., report that tho effects
Of the interstate law bsyin to be percept-
IDLE on the business OF tho country.
Millionaire Croker will give his daugh-
| ter Hattie a $25O.O 900 residence in New
York. He has three sons to provide for,
but he is worth $40, OOO, 900. ~"r1e~.-.~
The Chicago & Northwestern has settled
with upwards of seventy farmers at High
more, OAK, for damages from prairie fires
started from their engines last year, pay
ing out $4,000. .--sz.--
A dispatch to Northwestern paper
| some time since stated that Agent William.
son had ordered the arrest of settlers Tor
| cutting fuel on the Crow reservation in
Montana. A letter has been received
| from Williamson explaining tine matter.
| and based upon that letter the acting COM
missioner OF Indian affairs makes the fol-
| writing, April 81, says that for the first
time he has learned from the Daily Gazette
of Billings, Mont, OF the reports in circst.
lation throughout Montana and telegraph.
! ed East that he had caused the arrest OF
| farmers along the borders of the 'rcserva-
| ton for taking wood to keep their families
| from freezing. Maj. Williamson says that
| these reports are not only untrue but, on
the contrary, he gave special. written in
| structions to the deputy United States
marshal assigned to the Crow reservation,
as well as to leading Indians living on the
| border, allowing the Indians to cut fal len
| and dead timber and sell it for the purpose
Of raising money to assist them in living
and he says that nobody living on the
| borders could have suffered for fuel whep
the 1ndi ans were authorized to sell it.
Mrs. j. Ellen Foster and Helen Cougar
| will g., to Europe this month. A reception
will be g1Oen them in Boston on May %.
The west-bound passenger train on the
Northern Pacific is wrecked near Sterling,
Oak. w. o. Breed of Faribault 10 killed
| and several more or less wounded.
John A Logan, Jr., who q few weeks ago
was married to Miss Andrews daughter OF
Chauncy Anlrews, the coal and iron king
of Youngstown, Ohio, has returned from
his honeymoon and begun the active man.
agement OF coal lands given him by his
fatherin.law.
Destructive floods prevail in portions of
! New England, caused by heavy rains. At
| Waterville, Me-, the Kennebec river has
risen to a greater height than has been
known in Is years.
Destructive floods prevail in various
parts of New England.
Steve Elkins says he never owned any
| interest whatever in the Maxwell Land
| Grant company.
Gary. Dak., had close call from tor
| nado, recently.
The Postal Telegraph company made a
big cut in rates between New York and the
Pacific coast.
The Oregon Navigation company finds
itself in /. predcament, and asks for q sus-
| pension OF the long and short haul clause.
Serious charges of cruelty are made
sane asylum.
work on the Aberdeen, Bismarck & North
| western railway arc arriving rapidly, and
construction will soon begin along the en-
tire line The contract between Aberdeen
and Napoleon, Logan county. has been
| awarded to Langdon e. Co. OF Minneapolis.
The Ohio legislature has passed an act
| giving q married woman absolute control
! OF her own property the common law dis
| ordinations in favor of the husband and
| against the wife being abolished.
| Benton, Mon, dispatch says: Manitoba
surveyors have completed the survey here,
and leave for Great Fall. Mai. Lincoln
! leaves for Buford to meet w. B. Jordan OF
St. Paul to appraise the right OF way
! through the reservation for the Manitoba;
from Peoria to Milk River.
w. P. Shepard, we'll known in St. Paul,
but for some time chief clerk in the Helcn:.
4 Red Mountain railway engineers Office,
secured a divorce from his wife, who was in
Massa chusetts.
It is stated from Washington that all
the orders suspending the operation OF the
! long and short haul provision of the in ter
| state commerce law are to cease on the
| same date.
There was a total OF 191 failures in the
! United States and Canada the last week,
against 1919 for preceding week an! 2O7 for
the corresponding week last year.
Mrs. Mary Cothran committed suicide
with morphine at Kalamazoo, Mich
She eloped some time ago, but her para
mour deserted her, when she returned to
her husband and children.
Postmaster Bocskey, of Mitchell, Ill.,,
and his assistant, Miss Kruger have been
bound over to thegrand jury, charged with
swearing W lstSe TeUOTCS
Sioux Falls Special: William Anderson
| II farmer living seven miles from this city,
committed suicide by shooting himsei
through the head. No reason is known
In the agricultural department in Wash
ingtOn large force is now employed put.
ting up seed for congressman each states.
men getting z 900 packages of seed with
which to make himself solid with his farm
er constituents.
James II. Marcum was hanged at Louisa
KY, for the murder OF his cousin, Fisher
Marcum.
William J. Ayers, q commission mer-
chant OF Kansas City. committed suicide
on account OF financial troubles.
The Rev. w. +. Walker. late rector of
St. Matthias p. f. Church., at Waukesha,
Wis, has been deposed from the ministry
for insobriety.
Bismarck Special: The first sale OF ter
ritorial bonds took place at the capitol
Saturday the 30th ult., the amount being
$50, 900, and the bonds AZ per cent.
They sold for a premium Of per cent, in
Guiding the accrued interest. 1t is believed
that the $64O,OOO to be sold in June will
bring IL good premium.
Queen kapiolani, the wife OF the Ha-
waiian King, is expected in Wa shington to re.
main "a few days. She is on her
way to make jubilee visit to Queen Vic.
toria, and has with her a suite OF eleven
persons, including servants. The visit OF
King kalakau to this country in 1874
gives to the visit of his wife an additional
interest. The queens name has a meaning
In itself poetical and attractive Kapiolani
signifies "Arch OF heaven.'
Mrs. Helen G. Bishop nee Mack, wife OF
the mind reader, Washington Irving Bish-
op. filed IL petition for divorce in the su-
prcme court OF Massachusetts, charging
fraud and other offcnses, some OF them of
decidedly unsavorJ character.
The man found dead with his throat cut
ten miles south Of Moorhead, Mimi, has
been found to be DR.. Charles f. Sayles OF
valley City, Oak, until Mar 1G u member
OF the firm OF Farmhouse g. Sayles. gen.
eral merchants. He was insane. Sayles
leaves wife and two children ut Valley
City.
DR.. Edward Hass, Il st. Louis oculist OF
some repute, blew his brains out. Cause, i'll
health.